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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git The Staging Area

Nigel Yoshida
Nigel Yoshida
5,957 Points
Posted by Nigel Yoshida
Nigel Yoshida
5,957 Points

Commiting changes to staging area

I'm on task 5 that asks me to commit all the changes we made to the staging area. I am using git commit -a but it keeps telling me that I'm using the wrong git command.

3 Answers

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Nigel;

For this task (Task 5 of 6) you need to add a message to the commit. That would utilize the -m option and then you would add a message between quotes. So the command would be:

git commit -m "Your Message Here"

Ken

Nigel Yoshida
Nigel Yoshida
5,957 Points
Nigel Yoshida
Nigel Yoshida
5,957 Points

Gotcha. Thanks so much!

Ahmed Bohliqa
Ahmed Bohliqa
588 Points
Ahmed Bohliqa
Ahmed Bohliqa
588 Points

I was using 

git commit -a -m "some message"

, but it didn't work. Perhaps, the question need to be reworded to not say "all", or the it should be fixed to accept the all flag

piper piperian
piper piperian
8,958 Points
piper piperian
piper piperian
8,958 Points

agreed with the above comment. the task needs to be reworded. it seems to be asking that we do use git commit -a